first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386 w/linux.
ibook2 brand spanking new. followed several online guides http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html and have os9 and osx installed already. have booted into the debian installer through OpenFirmware after copying linux.bin, yaboot, yaboot.conf and root.bin to osx's root directory, then starting with a boot hd:9,\yaboot or some other apple magic... so the installer starts and i get the kernel and driver modules off the net at http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/... when it comes time to install the base system, i'm having much trouble. i have no iso cdrom. i've been trying to do this over the network, which is working. i can ping from another box the laptop, and in tty2 i can ping my router from the ibook. and the installer went and dloaded the drivers.tgz from the above URL... the error i receive is: Release Check Failed: The Server was unavailable or contained no Release file. ####### Google hasn't helped me, or i'm getting cross-eyed from this and missed it. is the installer expecting a 'release' file? i have seen the URL pointers for potato having a different makeup than what i see available for woody. END OF EXPLANATION question? if i dload and burn an iso for my powerbook, which one should i get? what arthritic ninja hand move do i have to do to boot from the cd? the open-apple+option+O+F? if so, then when in OF, what do i type to get to the cd? I hope someone's still awake, or waking up... ken __________________________________ http://llamakc.org GnuPG: 7C828670 Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: He was giving it last rites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
